bawl
bawl
Definition
bawl (bôl)
intransitive verb, transitive verb
- to shout or call out noisily; bellow; yell
- to weep and wail loudly
Etymology: ME baulen (found only in ger.) < ML baulare, to bark & ? ON baula, to low like a cow; both of echoic orig.
noun
- an outcry; bellow
- a noisy weeping
bawl′er noun
bawl out
- to shout or call out
- ☆ Slang to scold angrily
bawl
Synonyms
bawl
v.
bawl
Usage Examples
Object
- baby: But you can take comfort in the fact that a bawling baby will get you straight to the front of the queue.
- man: Then -- " " This public theater, " bawled the man in yellow, " is only a contingent.
- order: Just when it looked as tho they must be surrounded, the officer bawled an order.
- ship: THE PILOT How I bawled, Ship, ahoy! Hard by Medmenham Ferry!
- voice: At about 14.00 hours Neil's mom called us over, in her characteristic bawling voice.
Converse of object
- have: I decided to have a little bawl to myself.
Used with why or when
- when: Aimless bawling when the House is noisy is heard only by the loudmouth's unfortunate neighbors.
Preposition: like
- baby: Don't like their friend Hillary, she was bawling like a baby.
Modifying Another Word
Browse dictionary entries near bawl
- bawdyhouse
- bawdy
- bawdry
- bawd
- bawcock
- bawbee
- Bavarian cream
- Bavarian
- Bavaria
- bauxite
- bawl out
- bay
- bay antler
- Bay Area
- bay leaf
- bay lynx
- Bay of Pigs
- bay rum
- Bay State
- bay window
